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peanuts18 · 2022-05-02T11:27:45+00:00

AIBU? daughter has gone out for the day with Nan and grandad, I’m cleaning the kitchen and notice the plastic tub in the cupboard which had about 4 broken up Easter eggs (daughters eggs) is empty. He then said ‘oh I ate them last night as I wanted chocolate, she’s got other ones in there’ Shes got about 2 other eggs and odd bits left. shes going to be so upset when she finds out as it was her ‘special box’ of eggs Anyway he has stormed out saying I’m being stupid and she’s got to learn to share. I think he’s a pig in both ways!!!

Pyewhacket · 02/05/2022 12:59

Keep your chocolate stash under lock and key in our house or the two legged female mice will get it.

CuriousCatfish · 02/05/2022 13:03

I assume it's ok for his DD to help herself to his chocolate without asking. If not, he shouldn't take hers.

SpindleInTheWind · 02/05/2022 13:05

Whatsmyname100 · 02/05/2022 12:42

Oh fgs it's just chocolate and she's old enough to know to share. We ate ds eggs and he still had a few leftover.

She's not learning any manners though from this, is she? Sharing is by mutual agreement.

This was the big man just helping himself behind her back.

What's she learning from that, really?

Whatsmyname100 · 02/05/2022 13:09

sst1234 · 02/05/2022 12:55

He ate her chocolate, not blow her trust fund. Did he?

Exactly people are just ridiculous. I read another thread on another forum except it was the mother who ate it. People were all giggles and throwing in stories of how they did it too. But of course it's a man here so he might as well have ruined his daughter's life.

sst1234 · 02/05/2022 13:11

HeadNorth · 02/05/2022 12:55

People that routinely eats their kids chocolate - do you have a weight problem? I find it a really odd concept to take someone else's chocolate without asking.

What is the reason you don't ask your child for a piece rather than just take it without asking?

Honestly, do people really live like this. Asking your child or any other member of your immediate family if you can eat something that that is in the house. What do you do? Send your request in writing, just to be double sure?

Bentley123 · 02/05/2022 13:11

I’ve eaten some of my toddlers but he has no idea what he has left or how much & I don’t actually want him to eat it all. At 7 it’s a bit different as they’ll know what they have and it’s theirs. It’s not sharing if you just take it…you have to ask!

sst1234 · 02/05/2022 13:12

SpindleInTheWind · 02/05/2022 13:05

She's not learning any manners though from this, is she? Sharing is by mutual agreement.

This was the big man just helping himself behind her back.

What's she learning from that, really?

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That chocolate is yummy. And everyone likes it.

MsSquiz · 02/05/2022 13:12

How can a child "learn to share" when a parent has just taken something of hers that he wanted?

If he wanted to teach her a lesson in sharing, he should have asked if he could have some of her chocolate. It's not rocket science!

And everyone saying "she's old enough to share" I'm pretty sure her dad is old enough to know you don't take something without asking, regardless of what it is!

CuriousCatfish · 02/05/2022 13:14

We do live like this, yes. If someone has been bought a gift of chocolate, it's not a free for all for the rest of the family to eat.

MsSquiz · 02/05/2022 13:15

Honestly, do people really live like this. Asking your child or any other member of your immediate family if you can eat something that that is in the house. What do you do? Send your request in writing, just to be double sure?

@sst1234 DH and I have our own snack boxes in the cupboard and I would ask him if he minded if I have something out of his, and vice versa. Especially if whatever it was had been a gift to him.

That's different to just general household food

Bunty55 · 02/05/2022 13:15

My daughter stashed my grandson's eggs in the garage on a mezzanine. They were in a large bag. She brought the bag out to show me the eggs. She lifted a Cadbury's Dairy Milk egg up and a mouse's head popped out of it !
I don't know who was more scared - the mouse or us !
It jumped out and landed on the kitchen floor. It had eaten a hole in the egg so we had to chuck it - hope you like the pun :)

OldWivesTale · 02/05/2022 13:18

He just needs to say sorry, explain that he was desperate for a bit of chocolate and then ask what chocolate he can buy to make it up to her and then put that chocolate in the box.

TarpaulinEyes · 02/05/2022 13:19

My sister and her best friend stole and ate part of my Easter egg when I was about 7 years old. It had sugar flowers on and was beautiful, I had nibbled the chocolate round the flowers and left them for last.

It's over 50 years ago now, I still bear a grudge!

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 02/05/2022 13:20

It's a bit of chocolate. She's only 7; why does she need 6 of them? I'm assuming some others have been eaten already too. Far too much chocolate. Just buy her some more chocolate and stuff it in the tub if you're that worried.

Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious · 02/05/2022 13:22

sst1234 · 02/05/2022 12:55

He ate her chocolate, not blow her trust fund. Did he?

This. What an overreaction. He ate some of her chocolate because it was there.

MsSquiz · 02/05/2022 13:23

So many posters are saying it's too much chocolate for a 7 year old?

The 7 year old who had sensibly put them all in a box and maybe has the odd piece every so often, as a treat.

But 4 Easter eggs isn't too much chocolate for her greedy dad to eat all at once?!

HeadNorth · 02/05/2022 13:23

sst1234 · 02/05/2022 13:11

Honestly, do people really live like this. Asking your child or any other member of your immediate family if you can eat something that that is in the house. What do you do? Send your request in writing, just to be double sure?

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Yes, in my family we would ask for a piece of someone else's chocolate. I am equally amazed that there are families where it is OK to take other people's things without asking. That is not how I was raised, or how I raise my children.

ChaToilLeam · 02/05/2022 13:23

It might only be chocolate but he’s an arse. It’s hers, not his! And it’s not sharing if he didn’t ask and she didn’t agree.

At 7 she will notice.

ldontWanna · 02/05/2022 13:24

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 02/05/2022 13:20

It's a bit of chocolate. She's only 7; why does she need 6 of them? I'm assuming some others have been eaten already too. Far too much chocolate. Just buy her some more chocolate and stuff it in the tub if you're that worried.

But her dad eating 4 in one go is not too much?

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 02/05/2022 13:26

But her dad eating 4 in one go is not too much?

I did not say anything how his greedy habits. I think anyone eating 4 easter eggs at once is a pig if you really want to know.

worraliberty · 02/05/2022 13:27

Every year there are threads about this and it's shit.

It's shit that adults who's kids can clearly self regulate, will eventually learn to binge eat before their greedy parents take their stuff without asking.

LairyMcClairy · 02/05/2022 13:27

me and DH have eaten loads of our kids eggs but they tend to enjoy the egg hunt and then forget about them. If they were really bothered I wouldn’t though.

SleepingStandingUp · 02/05/2022 13:27

peanuts18 · 02/05/2022 12:33

Exactly and she would definitely have shared. It wasn’t even as if he had a little bit - he ate the whole tub!

I think this is the key bit. He didn't SHARE. He ate it all. And by the sounds of it it was a lot of chocolate so he gorged on it.

PatchworkElmer · 02/05/2022 13:27

I’m with you OP. It’s her chocolate and he should’ve asked.

catstale · 02/05/2022 13:28

Easter was weeks ago. She's clearly not that bothered about the 'special' box and will likely not notice.

He fancied some chocolate and ate some that had been hanging around for weeks. So what!

You're not teaching your daughter useful life skills by making a huge drama out of this.